The Five Senses Of Mindfulness
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The main purpose of this chapter is: to illustrate that when we practice mindfulness, we are more aware of our senses and can more fully enjoy what they have to offer. Living in an overindulgent, demanding society, individuals lose sight of the simplicities. The five basic senses – sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch – appear for many individuals at birth, resting unnoticed throughout life. With continuous stimulation from the external environment and internal factors, our senses do not turn on and off. Due to this continuous stimulation, individuals lose appreciation for their senses. By participating in mindfulness, an individual pulls himself or herself from reality, reflecting on their present experience.
The most important information in this chapter is: Touch is as important to good health as are food and water. While an individual can commendably live without sight, smell, taste, or hearing, life requires the sense of touch.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that mindfulness helps people become aware of their senses and enjoy what they have to offer.
- Explains that touch is as important to good health as food and water. touch encompasses communication, survival, and intimacy.
- Concludes that the senses are vital communicators that enhance and give deeper meaning to our lives. without the persistence of recognizing external changes, life would not prosper.
- Explains that some scientists think that we have nine senses — sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, pain, balance, thirst, and hunger.
- Analyzes how the chapter opens up with an introduction into senses, their responses, and their history, then exposes questions of knowledge, offering readers statistical facts on each sense.
- Explains how living mindfully frees us from getting caught up in emotions when practicing the four mac steps.
- Explains that the strongest emotions that prevent us from living mindfully are fear and anger. fear embraces a negative connotation as it encompasses tragedy, surprise, and remorse.
- Concludes that accepting emotions with acceptance and curiosity offers the opportunity to experience events with a fresh look seeing the detail of the experience.
- Explains that when we befriend our emotions, we give them less power to influence and control us. individuals tend to participate, or avoid, experiences based on their predetermined consequences.
- Explains that the main point of view presented is that of a short, mindful living experience. emotions reside in every individual’s vocabulary, and produce similar responses to situations.
Each of the five senses operates as a communicator between the external environment and the internal receptors. This communication reflects a cause and effect approach; the information an individual perceives from their senses, causes a distinctive bodily response. Without the persistence of recognizing the external changes, in the environment, life would not prosper. Imagine waking up incapable of sight, smell, taste, hear, or touch. While missing one sense, produced a heightened sensation in the other four, missing more than one sense diminished life quality. As the book clarified, senses reflect a window to the environment and a thermostat to internal needs. It remains imperative to understand how the senses not only communicate with external changes, but also with internal needs. Without the capability to physically observe internal needs, a mechanism is needed to communicate its
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